What are the Best Vegetable Sources of Carbohydrates? The first choice for endurance producing carbohydrates is going to come from starchy root vegetables. You may have been told to avoid potatoes if you were following a strict Paleo diet, but this is a mistake due to...

Are You Getting Enough Protein? Protein and the branch chain amino acids (BCAA’s) help repair and build muscles, maintain the immune system, manufacture enzyme and hormones, replace old red blood cells to carry oxygen to muscles, and act as fuel as a last resort....

The Evolutionary Timeline of the Sunburn Over the past sixty years or so, we have moved more and more towards an indoor, temperature controlled environment with the least amount of movement required. Due to this change as a species, we have become deficient in...

Meat, Plant and Dairy Consumption of Traditional Agricultural Societies One of the things I noticed while working on family farms is that meat is not as abundant on many farms as it is in our grocery stores. Farms provide us with a surplus of any food you want, but...

Have you ever wondered how much meat and plants our hunter gatherers consumed? Or our farming ancestors? When I originally designed the PaleoEdge diet, it was based on the optimal diet for athletes. Then I started noticing that it worked in our clinical practice for...

You don’t need to frost your tips, move to Hollywood and have custom juices strained through unicorn horns to to do a quality detox or cleanse. Your body naturally wants to detox, and with the right foods, herbs and mushrooms, it does a pretty good job....

The sports world has been riddled with the use of performance enhancing drugs. These can be anabolic steroids, HGH, artificial stimulants, or blood boosters. We have seen steroids rock the baseball world over and over again and blood doping shattered the cycling...

If You’re Gonna BBQ, Do it Right I think we can all agree that everything tastes better when it’s cooked on the barbecue. The flavors are more intense, the juices sealed, and that smoky flavor is hard to beat. While spending some time with friends in Colorado, I...

Einkorn wheat is one of the grains recommended to make sourdough bread on the PaleoEdge diet. It was man’s first form of cultivated wheat and looks entirely different than the wheat we have today. Europe’s oldest mummy – Otzi the Iceman – had...

Half marathons have become very popular lately, creating a challenge hard enough for those not quite ready (or want to) for a full marathon or triathlon. For people just beginning or those looking for better performance, this article is for you. Dietary preparation...

If you want to make healthy pancakes that will sustain you without making you feel like you need to take a carbohydrate nap, then look no further. Sourdough pancakes are not only more nutritious, but they are much tastier and lighter than the dense Bisquick...

http://youtu.be/826HMLoiE_o The oldest homosapien is now thought to have lived 340,000 years ago. For our entire existence, we have killed and consumed animals in the wild, just like other omnivores and carnivores. Then around 10,000 years ago we found a way to have a...

Gluten is a hard-to-digest protein found in many whole grains and cereals – and is often hidden in processed foods as binders, starch and fillers. A 2009 study from Gastroenterology comparing the blood of 10,000 people from 50 years ago to 10,000 people today...